It's been a long time coming, but the good news can now be confirmed - we now have a Mobile Medical vehicle for our street work up & running! We have a nurse (Rick from the U.S.) & a doctor (Iris - from Holland) volunteering with us on street visits to attend to the vast array of health needs we see on the streets. The vehicle is a van that's been equipped w/ a dental chair (that's doubling as an examination table), an air compressor & a generator - which gives us the capacity to do dental work (once we find a volunteer dentist : ).
Last week we were able to take Roberto (pictured above) to the hospital to get an x-ray on his broken leg (fractured when he was run over by a motorcycle). Overall, the van is allowing us much greater mobility in the streets to visit more kids & attend to urgent health needs the kids have. We are very grateful & excited to have this new outreach facility - thanks to all who've helped to make it a functioning reality!
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